certainly on a friday night you always drop this news in washington on a friday night, bad news like this. >> jennifer: affairs happen all the time. why would he have to resign because of an affair. >> most likely because there is going to be a link. maybe this woman tried to access his emails. it sounds like the '70s espionage, maybe the person is actually working for another government. in this case if he was -- >> jennifer: just to be clear, this is a breach of cia, they go into your personal life -- >> absolutely. >> joy: because you can compromise u.s. intelligence and security. >> absolutely. and this was known before the election. i don't think that president obama just learned about this yesterday. so i think -- >> jennifer: that's what he said in his statement apparently. he said i went over to the white house yesterday and told them -- >> he may have gone over there and gave them the resignation, but if there has been an investigation into this, there splay been knowledge before the election, but we don't know for sure. >> jennifer: we don't. all of the foreign policy and d